Monday, May 15, 2017

If you look at any thread about Trump, Islam or immigration on a Chinese social media platform these days, it’s impossible to avoid encountering the term baizuo, or literally, the ‘white left’. It first emerged about two years ago, and yet has quickly become one of the most popular derogatory descriptions for Chinese netizens to discredit their opponents in online debates.

So what does ‘white left’ mean in the Chinese context, and what’s behind the rise of its (negative) popularity? It might not be an easy task to define the term, for as a social media buzzword and very often an instrument for ad hominem attack, it could mean different things for different people. A thread on “why well-educated elites in the west are seen as naïve “white left” in China” on Zhihu, a question-and-answer website said to have a high percentage of active users who are professionals and intellectuals, might serve as a starting point.

The question has received more than 400 answers from Zhihu users, which include some of the most representative perceptions of the 'white left'. Although the emphasis varies, baizuo is used generally to describe those who “only care about topics such as immigration, minorities, LGBT and the environment” and “have no sense of real problems in the real world”; they are hypocritical humanitarians who advocate for peace and equality only to “satisfy their own feeling of moral superiority”; they are “obsessed with political correctness” to the extent that they “tolerate backwards Islamic values for the sake of multiculturalism”; they believe in the welfare state that “benefits only the idle and the free riders”; they are the “ignorant and arrogant westerners” who “pity the rest of the world and think they are saviours”.

Apart from some anti-hegemonic sentiments, the connotations of ‘white left’ in the Chinese context clearly resemble terms such as ‘regressive liberals’ or ‘libtards’ in the United States. In a way the demonization of the ‘white left’ in Chinese social media may also reflect the resurgence of right-wing populism globally.

I suspect that the demonization of SJWs in Chinese social media is a reflection of the global growth of the Alt-Right. Asians in general, and the Chinese in particular, are far more intensely nationalistic than Westerners these days, as, unlike the West, they have cast off most of the cultural Marxism that Mao inflicted upon them. Since that experience of Cultural Revolution cost over 50 million Chinese lives, it is no wonder that they are not eager for more imposed cultural change.

Although there are no shortage of Chinese SJWs in the West, who are trying to use the SJW Narrative to their immediate benefit in a foreign land, the smarter Chinese are aware of how that ever-mutating Narrative will be used against them, as indeed it already is in cases such as justifying anti-Asian discrimination in the Ivy League. Being a low-trust people themselves, they will use the Narrative when it benefits them and oppose it when it doesn't. But in neither case will they actually take it seriously, or genuinely subscribe to social justice ideals. They know SJWs for a true enemy.

Being an astute and self-conscious people, the Chinese are perfectly aware of why the West is in decline and the various parties who are responsible for that decline. It should be no surprise that they have absolutely no intention of following the West's failed path of equalitarianism and multiculturalism, for all that the Chinese leadership presently gives lip service to globalism and free trade.

Seen from the perspective of international relations, the anti-baizuo discourse can be understood as part of what William A. Callahan calls ‘negative soft power’, that is, constructing the Chinese self through ‘the deliberate creation and then exclusion’ of Others as ‘barbarians’ or otherwise inferior. Criticisms of the ‘white left’ against the background of the European refugee crisis fit especially well with the ‘rising China’ versus ‘Europe in decline’ narrative. According to Baidu Trends, one of the most related keywords to baizuo was huimie: “to destroy”. Articles with titles such as ‘the white left are destroying Europe’ were widely circulated.

The Chinese Alt-Right has the potential to be an extraordinarily powerful force, and if it can keep China's historical imperialist tendencies in check, it may prove to be a vital ally to the Alt-Right in the West in the long term.

Social Justice- the policy that when a government has been replaced with a communist dictatorship all people regardless of age, gender, sexual orientation, race, religion etc, shall have equal opportunity for liquidation without discrimination.

Of course, as I noted in the comments, his excuse for the ridiculous hypocrisy of his Chinese students (they advocate globalism and Social Justice for the US and West, nationalism for China) is exceedingly generous.

Nevertheless, the Chinese have a relatively healthy nationalistic attitude (for themselves, at least), and are a tough, stoic, capable race. Who haven't yet lost the brutality and "manly instinct" so vital to a nation.

I wonder to what extent "Rising China" fits together with the Back to Jerusalem movement. Chinese Christians are aware that Christianity has flowed in a westward direction around the world and is now growing in China. They see it as their responsibility as Christians to carry it as missionaries the rest of the way back to Jerusalem.

Lord knows the turn from Christianity has certainly lead to" Europe in Decline".

The rather rapid Christianization of chunks of East Asia is going to be a fairly important trend reaching into the latter half of the 21st Century. South Korea will be majority Christian by the end of the Century. Minus the civil war that's likely to happen.

China could have more Christians that people living in the USA by the end of the century. That very good for their souls, but, well, it always causes societal tensions.

Chinese, especially in the West, get the "game". They're extremely good at playing games, but they don't really do inventive things. So they're masters are being utter hypocrites. I wonder where they learned that trait?

"Asians in general, and the Chinese in particular, are far more intensely nationalistic than Westerners these days."

I find that it is surprisingly easy to "flip" Chinese people from an anti-Trump / pro-globalist position through dialectic engagement with them. Their inherent nationalism makes it easy to point out double-standards in what they want for themselves and what they want for us.

Chinese interlocutors very quickly realize that their opposition to Trump is in fact based on the fact that Trump is standing up for his people's own national interest, just as China's leaders do. There are actually a fair number of Chinese who like Trump and instinctively "get" him because of his own instinctive nationalism.

And regarding globalism, Chinese are quick to pick up that it is an uneven, unfair game, that they only support in unilaterally: the cheap labor currently benefits them, as does open U.S. borders. But when you ask them whether they, therefore, support open borders for China, they quickly say no and are smart enough to realize how incoherent their position is.

I have had quite some success with this approach. Caveat: I am talking about real PRC nationals, not ABC Chinese, who are - as Vox notes above - far more SJW in their politics.

I actually just Gabbed about one of these conversations today. The punchline, which 300 character was too short to show, is that he essentially admitted that the Alt Right position on immigration and trade is more coherent.

So they're masters are being utter hypocrites. I wonder where they learned that trait?

They didn't learn it from anyone. All low-trust groups behave that way. That's why I always say that both the Jews and the Europeans fail to understand their mutual history. The Jews are neither an evil nor a hyper-competent people. They simply happened to be the only competent, low-trust group in a position to exploit various high-trust groups for centuries.

That's why they are now over-confident and are getting steam-rolled by the Chinese and other Asians in areas of mutual competition. I would bet that after Blacks, Jews are on average the least-qualified, least-intelligent students in the Ivy League now.

Icicle wrote:the smarter Chinese are aware of how that ever-mutating Narrative will be used against them, as indeed it already is in cases such as justifying anti-Asian discrimination in the Ivy League.

Vox have you seen this? The SJWs are literally duplicating the Stasi or Red Guard on a campus. Incredible.

It could be a funny opportunity to black knight. Sign up and then proceed to target the lilly white SJWs on campus. Also organize your "educational events" at times and in ways that would draw the attention of wealthy alumni.

Vox, in what way do you believe the Chinese Alt-Right would be a benefit to the Alt-Right in the West?

While Western Alt-Right could point out that nationalist practices work for the Chinese in contrast to the stupid SJW dogma that the West is currently fixated on; a more nationalist China seems to be more of a competitor rather than ally of the Western Alt-Right.

That's why they are now over-confident and are getting steam-rolled by the Chinese and other Asians in areas of mutual competition. I would bet that after Blacks, Jews are on average the least-qualified, least-intelligent students in the Ivy League now.

In terms of SAT scores and any other academic accomplishments, Hispanics are far below either whites or Jews. Whites and Jews are both below Asians.

Off the top of my head, a black Ivy League student has a SAT score 270 points lower than a white student. A Hispanic Ivy League student has a SAT score 130 points lower than a white student. Whites and Jews are about the same.

It's like one day in class, one of my classmates an ABC was wearing a shirt that said this: 白人看不懂

When I pointed out that I understood it, he said I'm not white. Too bad: I am.

"Being an astute and self-conscious people, the Chinese are perfectly aware of why the West is in decline and the various parties who are responsible for that decline. It should be no surprise that they have absolutely no intention of following the West's failed path of equalitarianism and multiculturalism, for all that the Chinese leadership presently gives lip service to globalism and free trade."

I love it when liberals are horrified to discover that the outsiders they've venerate so much actually are more politically incorrect than we are. The Chinese and Mexicans are two fine examples of this.

"It could be a funny opportunity to black knight. Sign up and then proceed to target the lilly white SJWs on campus. Also organize your "educational events" at times and in ways that would draw the attention of wealthy alumni."

That clip is pure horror. Looking at that march it looks like a university protest these days, only more organized. We can be thankful that sjw's in the west lack discipline of the Chineese, otherwise they would be in absolute control already, organizing work camps.

The American Chinese are fully Democrats and will continue to be until it suits them otherwise. Highly educated or not, they are contradictory as they are fully susceptible to suspicion and superstitions. There's a word for everything. Just don't trust them to make sense.

Point 4: if they reject it, ask them to reject modern medicine, plumbing, aeronautics, etc. In favour of traditional Chinese technologies.

Point 13: Ask them to open their borders to the poor poor Africans, who subsist on much less per day than the Chinese.

Point 14: This is uncontroversial, and merely gives some specificity as to whether someone truly supports points 4, 10, 15 and in particular 16. If they can't say 14 out loud, they are intellectually incoherent.

And the Chinese are smart enough to take advantage of the West's stupid efforts with regard to globalism, equalitarianism, multiculturalism and climate change. They will gladly cheer us on, falsely commit to joining the insanity with absolutely no intent of contributing money or effort. Knowing that the further we fall, the more pieces they will have to easily pick up. Better yet, if we can pay them on the way down..... Chinese will use us to their full advantage.

Trying to give Vox's POV a fair listening as I think he's certainly one of the most interesting people on the right. This is due to his hewing to an intellectually honest path, and being willing to discuss and debate and refine his views as new information comes along.

But that doesn't mean he's correct in his analyses. I was laughing as I read this post, as though the idea that the Chinese are uber nationalists is some kind of surprise. What he seems to miss is that they are overtly Sino-Supremacist. Listen to the rhetoric coming from the govt, its intellectuals and public figures. China's economic rise is seen as proof positive of their innate superiority - in everything. It may be that this aspect of China's culture reveals the problems with the world order Vox advocates for...

You can't understand today's China without understanding the history of China and its culture. Confucianism still holds great sway, and the Chinese govt has morphed it to portray its "meritocracy" as the fairest and most just system on earth. Supposedly, people are winnowed out via the schools and only the most deserving "succeed" under their system. In other words, it's used to reinforce a covert class consciousness that aligns well with Confucian social order.

The Chinese think they are superior to everyone - not just white Leftists. And to believe there is a "Chinese alt right" is to announce how little one knows about China and its politics to begin with.

@14 The only way the West will escape the current maelstrom of madness it's in is through war; sometimes the most useful thing for foreign nations(allies) to do is to stay out of our affairs and not take advantage of us while we rebuild.

The following article doesn't define it, but read the section on crimes of fraud perpetrated by immigrants from Asia, the Middle East and other places, and you'll understand. Then think about Switzerland and Finland, by contrast.

In terms of SAT scores and any other academic accomplishments, Hispanics are far below either whites or Jews. Whites and Jews are both below Asians.

I'm a little surprised they're even letting Hispanics in at all, given how massively they are disproportionately underepresented.

It's obvious that aside from the dregs of the AA crew - Blacks, Hispanics, and whoever else qualifies - Jews have gone from being the elite of those universities to the below-average. Because in order to get in now, the Asians and the non-Jewish whites have to be better than them.

I'm an East Asian Studies major. I don't miss that at all. What you quite clearly don't understand is that imperialism is a net negative for a culture. It is possible that the Chinese are smart enough to learn from the West in this regard as well.

Of course, they may simply decide to repeat the follies of earlier imperialist societies. It is always very tempting to have others work your fields for you while you eat like an effendi.

Looks like this expression could take over from SJW - it certainly sounds much more impressive as invective. So the following information could be useful.

Here are the characters for báizuǒ : 白左

bai rhymes with eyezuo is pronounced more or less like swore with a t in front, i.e. tsworeEqual stress on both syllables (as in one two)The singular and the plural are the same, e.g he's a baizuo, they are baizuo

A very long bloody slog for them to even get to the point where they have access to the influence to choose the paths you discuss. So many ways it could go wrong, far more wrong paths, even final paths, than right. For one, without Christianity as a prime mover, and openly available, they will not ever be a true long-term ally, much as the problem with alt-white. Short term, perhaps into medium term, only without that. I even suspect Christianity would have to be well rooted there, and it's not. I suspect Christianity is more of a resistance than a true faith there.

I know they think they are civilized, and the West barbaric. But that is just a cover for the shame of their history. For them to be civil, they would have to have stable history of government. Their current government murdered their last government and millions, tens of millions, maybe a hundred and more million, of their people. The dynasty before it did the same, and so on into vast antiquity. The depth, breadth, and span of corruption in their governments are only equaled by Russia. They are as civilized as Africa, which makes their attempts to colonize their fitting. And... it'll go so sideways they'll scrub the history books of it.

Most of them are malnourished field squatters who can't speak the tongue of as close as the next village over. They don't like each other, considering the various races among them more as animals than men, so of course anyone else would be even worse. They are not civilized. In that sense, they remind me of muslims... croaking on the hypocrisy and never missing a beat. They just murder any who notice, or attack them however they can.

However, in one sense, when you get them to shut the poetic nonsense, they get down to brass tacks, if in a secular way, and attempt to play the game and hard. They just... aren't very good at it. No worries, it they were wise they would choose humble wisdom rather than pride. So few do, without given unbridled understanding in a way they just can't deny. That, however, and often, is final.

To flesh it out a little more, the point on low-trust is; If you assume everyone is out to screw you then it makes you a sucker if you aren't also trying to screw them. It results in you screwing over the high trust people and pulling even with the other low-trust people. The problem is this causes others to become low-trust and ultimately a low-trust society leads to a much worse society when all the high-trust individuals are converted to low-trust.

Talking about Japan in High Trust situations is incorrect. It's neither high or low trust. Japan is ultra High Societal-level Trust. Nihonjin wa nihonjin. However, it's extremely low Inter-personal Trust. Most societies tend to have the Trust levels in similar measure, whereas the Japanese do not.

As for China, 3 major border regions are at the extremes of their historic control (Western Uighur region, Tibet & Manchuria) and require constant suppression campaigns to maintain control. Numbers are hard to nail down, but China might have more debt than the USA & Japan combined at this point. And the Yuan is actually massively over-valued, which is why Trump has so much leverage with China.

China is on the bullet train to repeating Japan's Bubble Burst, but they are reaching it at much poorer state. The total economy of China still seems to be below that of Japan, a country with 1/10th of the population.

@28 Glenn, arrogance/vainglory(call it pride if you will) has always been a huge problem, you're really not positing anything new here.

Also, saying that there is a growth of alt-right style thought in China != there being a Chinese alt right just yet. Although if we're thinking realistically here, the nonexistence of such at the present time (at any scale, no matter how small) is statistically extraordinarily improbable, so not only did you construct somewhat of a strawman, but the strawman beat you down.

This confirms my suspicions: the official statistics indicate that non-Jewish whites at Harvard are America’s most under-represented population group, enrolled at a much lower fraction of their national population than blacks or Hispanics, despite having far higher academic test scores.

That means only the very top-tier whites and Asians are accepted, while second- and third-rate Jews are accepted, along with fourth- and fifth-rate blacks and Hispanics.

bai rhymes with eyezuo is pronounced more or less like swore with a t in front, i.e. tsworeEqual stress on both syllables (as in one two)The singular and the plural are the same, e.g he's a baizuo, they are baizuo

If you'd told me a few years ago that I'd be looking at China and Russia with no small degree of admiration while hoping for the U.S. to be taken down a peg on the world stage, I'd have called you crazy. Yet, here we are.

Or as Vox said, more or less, imprerialistic societies have, historically, inevitably achieved that legendary "Oh Shi**" point at which their reach exceeded their grasp. There are a number of reasons why this happens, but they all boil down to a combination of the imperialists becoming soft, decadent and vainglorious, and their vassals being hardened, purified and disillusioned by the same process.

Charles De Gaulle said, "Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first."

Patriotism in this quote could also be called 'Omni-Nationalism' about which we have already had an excellent thread. The Alt-West faction of the Alt-Right are 'Omni-Nationalist'.

Then there would be varying degrees, leading to the Nationalist extreme of this quote.

While I can't think of any major people today that has this extreme attitude, there are a number who at least exhibit disdain for nations other than their own. The Chinese and, for that matter, every other Asian nation seems to fall into this category.

While many 'high trust' nations have held other nations in varying degrees of contempt, I do wonder if it is a trait that will be nearly universal among 'low trust' nations?

If so, a nation or group that exhibits a disdain to rabid hate for others may be your ally now, but you should always cut the cards.

Are the Chinese fixing to colonize, or fixing to set up a serioes of Rajs? It's ``Africans pick my cotton for me'' versus ``Africans pick their cotton for me.''

I doubt they intend to displace Africans and pick their own cotton in Africa. It would be interesting if they did. If the PRC were to send their troublemakers to Africa, they could develop an Australia-style colony, while sending floods of refugees north to Europe and south toward the Cape. If they sent mostly young male troublemakers, they might end up improving the African gene pool slightly along the way.

白左 - good to know. If I may sperg a little, the mandarin pronunciation is a little problematic for English speakers. The first syllable "bai" is pretty much pronounced like "buy" with a second tone (rising inflexion). The second syllable, however, is more difficult. As mentioned earlier, it sort of rhymes with "swore", except beginning with dz (not tz). The "r" portion is most common in the more Northern dialects. More to the South and in Taiwan, the Yale romanization is better phonetically than most, and it renders "left" as "dzwo" with a third tone (a low inflexion) and without the "r".

If you submit "white left" to google translate, you get a very literal four character (each one syllable) translation meaning "white color left region". The first and third characters are the ones we're interested in. If you play the audio, the first and third syllables are what you want.

Just as a point, I've read in numerous other places that Asian high SAT scores should be taken with a grain of salt. Apparently, even though the rules prohibit it, in Asian dominated areas the test takers bunch together to share answers, and the proctors don't stop them. Individuality, sticking out from the group, is looked down on. Cooperation, even if it's cheating, is prized if it helps the group.

@67 According to the pagan Alt-Right, the former was far greater then the latter; in their minds Christianity deliberately weakened the European peoples, and if pointed to the great things Europeans accomplished as believing Christians, they say it was in spite of said belief.

Christian Mexico, aside from being barely that, is also genetically distinct from pre-Christian Mexico. Mostly in the fact that the old ruling class is now the under-class, and the ruling class is mixed-blood Europeans.

A fully Christian China, or South Korea for that matter, will be an extremely powerful force, but the transition from here to there is going to be messy. We'll see how it goes in South Korea first, to give us an idea how it's going to play out in China. China is a big place with a lot of historic regional aspects that'll be brought to bare. South Korea doesn't have that issue. (It's also more likely that South Korea's Christian population simply replaces the old one because they have children.) My current assumption is the South Korean civil war would be fairly short; China would likely break apart into the separate countries it really is.

I often wonder if the remnants of Communism in both Russia and China have more to do with the cultural affinity for strong leadership, and the corresponding expectation of popular submission than they do to actual European style Marxist philosophy.

And this is another big, big reason Islam sucks: compare pre-Islamic Egypt, Persia, and Babylonia to Islamic Egypt, Iran, and Iraq.

According to the pagan Alt-Right, the former was far greater then the latter; in their minds Christianity deliberately weakened the European peoples, and if pointed to the great things Europeans accomplished as believing Christians, they say it was in spite of said belief.

@72 Shane SullivanMost of these pagan Alt-Rightists are pig-ignorant about history if not full Alt-Retard. They also never bother to explain why Europe started declining and suffering a civilizational loss of confidence after ''rejecting'' Christianity.

Another thing is, as I have pointed out repeatedly, the conflation of identity with belief. People insist that if enough people who identify as "Christians" believe something stupid that the Crusaders would have laughed at, that means this is what "Christianity" teaches.

After reading some of the links posted in this thread I must say that it pains me to think that the Chinese/Japanese/Koreans might become prey to the mind virus of liberalism. The white nations have already plunged the Diversity Dagger into their hearts and are only waiting to bleed out; but the beauty of the east asian cultures and races might still be saved.

I think it would be a worthy project if someone of ability could write a Chinese language website devoted to Alt-Right principles and race realism. I don't have that ability myself, but I wish I did. I propose titling the page something like "A Signal from a Sinking Ship". It would be a noble cause!

@73. IcicleNo. Otherwise we would still have Scythians and Ostrogoths running around.

Now that's irrelevant.

You realize I was simply pointing out that Christianity doesn't REMOVE racial differences, right?

@74. Looking GlassChristian Mexico, aside from being barely that, is also genetically distinct from pre-Christian Mexico.

True. And while it's not the main cause of the genetic shift in Mexico, the concept of genetic shift via change in mating preferences due to religion change is something to consider as well.

A better comparison would've been Christian France with Christian Germany - both Christian, but they're still French and German and not some amorphous generic identity.

That said, I wasn't aware that South Korea's Christian population was on the rise. I thought the pop culture coming out from America and getting sucked up almost wholesale by South Korea was hindering it.

The pc left would like you to believe that 'Middle Kingdom' refers to geography. What a laugh. The etymology of ‘Middle’ does not come from geography. It refers to the the Chinese belief that they are the intercessors between Heaven ‘above’ and the barbarians (i.e., the rest of the world outside China) ‘below’. The Chinese themselves have always been and will always be fiercely ethnocentric.

"45. Blogger VD May 15, 2017 8:20 AM ...That means only the very top-tier whites and Asians are accepted, while second- and third-rate Jews are accepted, along with fourth- and fifth-rate blacks and Hispanics."

This is something that gives me hope. Letting the second rate and lower enter those schools is a sure way to expose otherwise sheltered first rate minds to some genetic objective reality. You can preach the progressive narrative at them daily but when they also see with their own eyes what the affirmative action entrants are actually capable of the cognitive dissonance mind worm takes root.

To step beyond the progressive narrative all they have to do is realize the affirmative action students are the best their respective nations/tribes were able to produce.

One of the great things about the red pill is that it becomes an inoculation against lies as well as being a truer view of reality.

"Good" social stats are a lot harder to come by outside of the West, but you're looking at between 20-30% of the South Korean population. And that should skew more to those at the younger age range.

But that doesn't mean by age 25 that 99% of all South Korean Women won't have had cosmetic surgery. The Koreans are a tad obsessive about looks. To the point you can figure out which surgeons someone went to by adjusted facial features.

Being an astute and self-conscious people, the Chinese are perfectly aware of why the West is in decline and the various parties who are responsible for that decline. It should be no surprise that they have absolutely no intention of following the West's failed path of equalitarianism and multiculturalism, for all that the Chinese leadership presently gives lip service to globalism and free trade.

Being an astute and self-conscious people, the Chinese are perfectly aware of why the West is in decline and the various parties who are responsible for that decline. It should be no surprise that they have absolutely no intention of following the West's failed path of equalitarianism and multiculturalism, for all that the Chinese leadership presently gives lip service to globalism and free trade.

I believe the difference between the way Catholic Christianity and Protestant Christianity affect the culture of a nation is very important, especially in cultures that were not Christian for most of their history.

Korea is primarily Protestant in its conversion and I believe that is instrumental to the engine of their success.

As I wrote just a little bit after that, "A better comparison would've been Christian France with Christian Germany - both Christian, but they're still French and German and not some amorphous generic identity."

Many years of Christianity have not made the French and Germans interchangeable. I'm guessing they've changed a fair bit genetically from being Franks and Saxons, but the French are still different from Germans.

China will end up developing the same disease as the West because China re-invented itself in the image of the West.

China is now nationalistic and capitalist in a fashion similar to the 1950s West (also materialistic and scientific) - but these things inevitably and nececssarily end up in parasitic late-stage capitalism and post-nationalist self-hate like it did in the west.

Why?

Any society based on materialism, technology, capitalism, and narrow nationalism eventually dies of the disease of the West - as life becomes unbearably unsatisfying self-hate and self-disgust sets in, and the inevitable self-destruction and desperate turn to "primitive" people's in order to re-inject your own society with vitality.

There is no hope for any society that contracts the Western disease and models itself on the West.

As I wrote just a little bit after that, "A better comparison would've been Christian France with Christian Germany - both Christian, but they're still French and German and not some amorphous generic identity." ...but the French are still different from Germans.

Icicle wrote:Talking about Japan in High Trust situations is incorrect.

Is that why they leave their bicycles unlocked on major streets in Tokyo? .

Yeah, no. You don't leave your bike unlocked anywhere, but especially at train stations, and you don't trust the built-in ring-lock as your only means of locking you bike. I had two bikes stolen that way, and only managed to recover the second by locking it with a chain lock after I found it with somebody else's lock on it.

The garage attendants were very nice about cutting the other person's lock, when I showed up with the paperwork proving the bike was mine, but going to the police to report the theft was worse than useless.

I would argue they are Catholic Christianity. Chinese Christianity is more protestant in nature. If you want, there is something to be explored there.

I wouldn't call Mexico, or most S.A. nations, Catholic. They are the sort of 'religion' Obama was involved with. More to do with whitey hate than anything to do with praising God. Yeah, not Catholic. Catholicism, if it even existed then, was destroyed in Mexico at some point in the earlier part of the last century.

I believe the difference between the way Catholic Christianity and Protestant Christianity affect the culture of a nation is very important, especially in cultures that were not Christian for most of their history.

@90 William MeisheidI still insist that blood is more important than religion, at least within Christianity. (By contrast, I'm almost certain Islam dumbs down a people.)

I'll make a prediction: the Protestants in Northern Triangle countries such as Guatemala aren't going to be elbowing Costa Rica out of being the Switzerland of Central America any time soon.

Since no one else seems to have mentioned it, bai is not just the color white. In Mandarin, it also translates as "vain" or "useless(ly)". This is in the sense of failing to make a mark on a blank surface.

@VD - Moving the goalposts now? You didn't discuss imperialism in this blog piece. You claimed some sort of parallel with U.S. politics, and I don't think there is one.

It's much better explained by Sino-Supremacy. As for your aspersions about imperialism and empire, perhaps a dip into Great Power Politics and Grand Strategy is in order - wait, I know, you already know everything there is to know...

There is an emergent aspect to what happens to large powers in our global nationstate order. Large, powerful nations cannot afford to sit alone.

There is also the small fact that the U.S. is not an imperial power in any meaningful sense of the word. If we are, we are the worst in history as we don't benefit from most of our interventions.

Last. The Chinese are making fun of white western left wing idiots, not their own people from what I can tell from your citations and commentary. Not sure how that is any kind of parallel to what's going on here.

Reminds of an old acquaintance of mine, a black guy who fought in Vietnam. He said when he had a leave in Tokyo he talked to a local and said "hey man, back home in America they call people like me 'nigger!' What you people call us?"

Any society based on materialism, technology, capitalism, and narrow nationalism eventually dies of the disease of the West - as life becomes unbearably unsatisfying self-hate and self-disgust sets in . . . '

"it's even more shocking to contemplate that their test scores probably make the situation even more outrageous."

Ya beat me to it. An excellent piece by (((Unz))). Not only that, this overrepresentation makes the "white" statistics very misleading, by combining a group way over-represented with one that is way underrepresented according to ability, effectively disguising the nature of the underlying process.

There's an imprecision of language issue plaguing commenters discussing the work of Cantor here. OGRE is right in that a function can't ever equal the value "infinity." This "infinity" is defined as he said, in that it's a limit that can never be reached. The aleph numbers refer to the sizes of sets and are not the quasi-value "infinity," which is the sticking point. Too many concepts mapped on the same word, gents.

"Ron Unz's incredibly important article The Myth of American Meritocracy also wins the award for the wordiest and most roundabout I'm-Not-Saying-Its-the-Jews-But-It's-the-Jews essay in history"

Yeah, that's some moldbug-tier logorrhea. The facts are all in there if you wade through it, though. I did see some secondary MSM coverage that focused only on the Asian findings. I guess they felt confident that not enough people would bother to read the original source, given its length, to matter.

"There is also the small fact that the U.S. is not an imperial power in any meaningful sense of the word. If we are, we are the worst in history as we don't benefit from most of our interventions."

Or perhaps your concept of "we" is inexact in this case. Who says that those in charge have a concept of "we" that is synonymous with "the American people?" I haven't made any intervention decisions lately. Have you?

Just take a look at any map of US military bases sound the world. That's an empire. Cui bono is a separate question.

I see many comments on Christianity in later European history, but what of Rome?

I will confess that I am no expert in the subject matter, but many volumes have been written attributing, in part, the decline of Rome to its conversion to Christianity and I have generally found these arguments persuasive given the support presented.

Glenn Donovan wrote:There is also the small fact that the U.S. is not an imperial power in any meaningful sense of the word. If we are, we are the worst in history as we don't benefit from most of our interventions.

I want to end the American Empire and return us to a federal republic precisely because our solipsistic "elites" are running the empire for their own narrow benefit, at our expense.

You might as well start arguing people f*cking each other does not remove genetic differences since it is actually the sperm fertilizing the egg that does it. "OH NO, that was not the mudsharking, that was the black sperm! Get it right!"

Regarding Mexico and Catholicism, this has to be seen in light of two things: first, the opposition to the Church by Masons and revolutionaries for hundreds of years, which has produced events like the Cristero rebellion; and second, Vatican II, which has been a disaster for Catholicism everywhere. According to Francis Kelley in his Catholic history of Mexico, Blood-Drenched Altars, Mexico was actually a fairly advanced Catholic civilization for its time, when it was under Spanish rule.

But now Mexicans reject their Spanish heritage and consider themselves the descendants of the Aztecs. That was deliberately promoted by anti-Christian forces. Although the country is still nominally Catholic, Mexican Catholicism contains a lot of pre-Christian elements, which more and more people are interested in now since the advent of the "new age" in the 60s. Then again, Roman Catholicism contains a lot of pre-Christian Roman elements. Maybe the Orthodox are right and everyone should have their national church. It seems to just be in the order of things, the same way Tibetan Buddhism is distinctly Tibetan.

It’s way past the time when we high-IQ, low-fertility, long-civilized Arctic peoples—the whites and the yellows—can afford to bicker among ourselves, about election hacking or anything else. We should be putting our smart, pale heads together to plan a geostrategy to preserve our nations, our civilization, from the swelling numbers down there in the tropics who seek to displace us by demographically overwhelming us.

@115 Scott BirchThat most assuredly is not the case.I know of the "study" that came to this conclusion, it is liberal scientistry, no doubt created to serve the miscegenation agenda, programming white women to think their offspring will inherit white IQ when mating outside their racial genealogy.Genius seems to be a overwhelmingly paternal trait, which makes sense since men have a higher average IQ than women, male DNA is also less susceptible to mutation.All of this makes sense when you consider that relatively few men, but almost all women have children.

A) You struggle to make comprehensible sentences, yet accuse me of being convoluted. Amusing.B) You're also so mentally deficient that you can't quite grasp how ONE Christian kingdom splitting up into MORE than one Christian kingdom, genetically different from each other, automatically rules out Christianity somehow removing racial differences.

Because if it did, then no Christian country would be racially different than the other, especially ones that came from a common ancestor. How is this hard to understand?

Females have two X chromosomes. Any intelligence-related genes on the X chromosome are present in two copies. Now, only one X chromosome per cell actually gets used. One or the other is substantially (though not completely) inactivated and becomes a Barr body. This means that female brains express a mixture of the traits conferred by their two X chromosomes.

Male brains only have one X chromosome so the phenotype is the direct expression of its genotype. This means the curve will be broader, as extreme traits on one X chromosome are not balanced by the other.

Snidely Whiplash wrote:I don't suppose that it's occurred to all you philosophers that following Catholicism is more likely the result of national character than the cause.

Contrast Poland with Mexico. Both Roman, and about as different as two nations can be. If there is any down side to the Roman church, the Poles have weathered it far better than the Mexicans.

Contrast France to both. Contrast the Protestant German principalities with the Roman ones.

I'd say that national character has far more to do with the fate of the nation than the branch of Christianity the nation settles on. Still, I think that the Roman church is going to push a nation in different directions than a Baptist church would. Not sure how Roman would compare with Orthodox.

That's a lot of projecting packed into four sentences. Packing that fudge in nice and deep.

B) You're also so mentally deficient that you can't quite grasp how ONE Christian kingdom splitting up into MORE than one Christian kingdom, genetically different from each other, automatically rules out Christianity somehow removing racial differences.

Because if it did, then no Christian country would be racially different than the other, especially ones that came from a common ancestor. How is this hard to understand?

We'll use wooden blocks as an analogy, for when you hang out at the daycare center trying to stack them neatly in rows (and failing).

If I take SANDPAPER and rub it against WOOD, I don't need to remove every single BUMP on the WOOD to know the SANDPAPER is having an effect and removing BUMPS.

In the same way, that means some of the wooden blocks might end up being DIFFERENT even when using the SAME sandpaper.